The primary method of showing contrast in spoken speech, according to the text, is through the use of antonyms. In antonymic relationships, polysemantic words that originated with this potential future meaning and may have an associated antonym may do so. By contrast, the semantics of various words can be determined by the meaning of a single word.

The writers of the article demonstrated the reliance of derivative words of other parts of speech as well as the combination of antonyms generated by the method of word formation on the basis of antonyms.